11/3/2023 0 Comments Seven warlords of the sea![]() ![]() ![]() Two storeys tall, fronted with full-height Tuscan columns in early 19th-century Russian townhouse style, the houses were set back in shadow behind a small roofed courtyard. In winter the deep snow was shovelled away by hand to get the yellow marshrutkas in and out of the square the rest of the year it was a friendly inferno of crowds, horns and bootleg markets.Ī little rigmarole of buildings on its south-east corner fascinated me. When I lived in the Black Sea port of Odessa at the turn of the century, Grecheskaya Ploshchad – Greek Square – was the city centre’s marshrutka (minibus) terminus.
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